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1497. *PALGRAVE, FRANCIS. The rise and progress of the English commonwealth: Anglo-Saxon period. 2 pts. London, 1832.

Lays stress on the development of legal institutions. Badly arranged and discursive. Palgrave also wrote a popular account of the same subject, entitled History of England, Anglo-Saxon Period (London, 1831; new editions, History of Anglo-Saxons, 1867, 1869, 1876, 1887, etc.); and an essay on the materials of Anglo-Saxon history, in Quarterly Review, 1826, xxxiv. 248-98.

1498. PHILLIPS, GEORGE. Versuch einer Darstellung des angelsächsischen Rechts. Göttingen, 1825.

The earliest attempt to deal critically with this subject. The book is now in large part antiquated.

1499. ROBERTSON, E. W. Historical essays. Edinburgh, 1872.

The hide, 92-102.

The shire, 112-33.

The king's kin, 177-89.

Dunstan, 189-203.

Edgar's coronation, 203–15.

1500. SEARLE, W. G. Anglo-Saxon bishops, kings, and nobles the succession of the bishops and the pedigrees of the kings and nobles. Cambridge, 1899.

Valuable.

1501. STEARNS, J. M. The germs and developments of the laws of England. New York, etc., 1889.

Consists in large part of a reprint of Thorpe's translation of the AngloSaxon laws (No. 1393), with brief notes; contains also a translation of the laws of Edward the Confessor and of Magna Carta.

1502. TURNER, SHARON. History of the Anglo-Saxons. 4 vols. London, 1799-1805; 7th edition, 3 vols., 1852.

Vol. iv. of the 1st edition (vol. iii. of the 7th) deals with manners, institutions, literature, etc. The account of King Alfred in bk. v, is still valuable.

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d'Angleterre jusqu'au xii. siècle. Paris, 1863.

A digest of the Anglo-Saxon laws under a few main heads. Of little value.

§ 41. FROM THE CONQUEST TO EGBERT'S

SUPREMACY.

The authority of the old standard works of Guest and Green (Nos. 1263, 1510) has been severely shaken by Stevenson's criticism (No. 1263). Elton, Hodgkin, and Oman (Nos. 1247, 1491a, 1495) deal with the period incidentally. Various recent works V. H. Friedel, L'Arrivée des Saxons en Angleterre, in Beiträge zur Philologie, Festgabe für Wendelin Foerster (Halle, 1902), 280-96; Henry Housman, The Story of Saint Ethelbert of Hereford, King and Martyr, Hereford, [1901]; A. Schiber, Germanische Siedlungen in Lothringen und in England, in Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Lothringische Geschichte, etc. (Metz, 1900), xii. 148-87; T. W. Shore, Origin of the AngloSaxon Race, a Study of the Settlement of England, London, 1906 (settlements of Saxons, Danes, etc., in England); R[udolf] Thurneysen, Wann sind die Germanen nach England Gekommen? in Englische Studien, 1896, xxii. 163–79.

1505. BABCOCK, W. H. The two lost centuries [the fifth and sixth] of Britain. Philadelphia, 1890.

1505a. CHADWICK, H. M. The origin of the English nation. Cambridge, 1907.

Excludes the Saxons from a share in the conquest of Britain.

1506. ERDMANN, AXEL. Ueber die Heimat und den Namen der Angeln. Upsala, 1890.

Some scholars believe that the Angles who invaded England came from the region of the middle Elbe and the Saale; but most writers, including Erdmann and Weiland (No. 1519), maintain that they came from Sleswick. N. J. Krom, in his De Populis Germanis Antiquo Tempore Patriam nostram Incolentibus Anglosaxonumque Migrationibus (Leyden dissertation, 1908), holds that they came from the region of the Netherlands,

1507. FREEMAN, E. A. Four Oxford lectures. London, etc., 1888.

Teutonic conquest in Gaul and Britain, 61-112. Assails the theories of Celtic and Roman origins of English institutions.

1508.

King Ine. Somersetsh. Archæol. and Nat. Hist. Soc., Proceedings, xviii. pt. ii. 1-59, xx. pt. ii. 1-57. Taunton, 1874-75.

1509. GAUPP, E. T. Die germanischen Ansiedlungen. Breslau, 1844.

Anglo-Saxons, 538-50.

1510. GREEN, J. R.

The making of England [A.D. 449– 829]. London, 1881; 4th edition, 2 vols., 1897; reprinted, 1900, 1904, 1910.

1511. HAIGH, D. H. The conquest of Britain by the Saxons. London, 1861.

1512. HEINSCH, JOSEPH. Die Reiche der Angelsachsen zur Zeit Karls des Grossen. Breslau, 1875. pp. 105.

Deals mainly with Mercia and Northumbria in the 8th century.

1513. HORTON-SMITH, R. J. The cranial characteristics of the south Saxons. Anthropological Institute, Journal, xxvi. 82102. London, 1897.

1514. JELLINGHAUS, HERMANN. Englische und niederdeutsche Ortsnamen. Anglia, xx. 257-334. Halle, 1898. Tries to show that the Angles who invaded England came mainly from the upper Weser.

Les Bretons insulaires
Paris, 1873.

1515. LA BORDERIE, ARTHUR DE. et les Anglo-Saxons du ve au viie siècle. Deals with the migration of Celts of Britain to Armorica during the period of the Germanic conquest of Britain. See also W. Edwards, The Settlement of Brittany, Soc. of Cymmrodorion, Y Cymmrodor, 1892, xi. 61-101; Joseph Loth, L'Emigration Bretonne en Armorique, Paris, 1883; Bède Plaine, La Colonisation de l'Armorique par les Bretons Insulaires, Paris, 1899.

1516. POSTE, BEALE. Britannia antiqua. London, 1857. Chs. i.-ii. Asser, Gildas, Nennius. Chs. iii.-iv. British history in the 6th century.

Chs. x.-xii. Roman Britain.
Ch. xviii. Richard of Cirencester.

Zur Geschichte der Eroberung

1517. SCHAUMANN, A. F. H. Englands durch germanische Stämme. Göttingen, 1845. pp. 49. Contends that Saxons from the Litus Saxonicum in Gaul took a prominent part in the conquest of Britain.

1518. VARIN, [P. J. ?] Etudes relatives à l'état politique et religieux des îles britanniques au moment de l'invasion saxonne [A.D. 411-731]. Académie des Inscriptions, Mémoires, Ist series, V. I-270. Paris, 1857.

1519. WEILAND, LUDWIG. Die Angeln. Tübingen, 1889.

pp. 40.

Maintains that the Angles came from Sleswick, and that the Germans who settled in Kent were not Jutes but that they came from the region of the lower Weser. Meitzen (No. 1339) accepts this theory.

§ 42. FROM EGBERT TO 1066.

The best authorities are Green, Steenstrup, and Freeman, Norman Conquest (No. 2812), vols. i.-iii. For the life of King Alfred there is still no better work than Turner's History of the Anglo-Saxons (No. 1502). See J. H. Swann, Alfred the Great and his Times: an Annotated Study-List of Books in the Reference Library [Manchester Public Free Libraries], Manchester, 1901, pp. 9.

1520. Alfred the Great chapters on his life and times. By Frederic Harrison, Charles Oman, [John] Earle, Frederick Pollock, etc., ed. Alfred Bowker. London, 1899.

Cf. John Earle, The Alfred Jewel, Oxford, 1901; and F. M. Stenton, Ethelwerd's Account of the Last Years of King Alfred's Reign, in English Historical Review, 1909, xxiv. 79-84.

1521. ALLEN, JOHN. Inquiry into the life and character of king Eadwig. London, 1849.

Appended to his work on the royal prerogative (No. 661).

1522. BIRCH, W. DE GRAY. Early notices of the Danes in England to 937. British Archæol. Assoc., Journal, xliv. 326–42. London, 1888.

1523. BOIVIN-CHAMPEAUX, LOUIS. La reine Emma. Rouen, 1885. pp. 39.

1523a. BUGGE, ALEXANDER. Vikingerne. 2 series. Copenhagen, etc., 1904-06.

Northmen in Ireland, i. 114-69. | Northmen in England, ii. 237-342.

Valuable. Other books by the same writer :-
:-

Bidrag til det sidste Afsnit af Nord

boernes Historie i Irland, in Aarböger for Nordisk Oldkyndighed og Historie, xix. 248-315, Copenhagen, [1904]. Deals with the Northmen in Ireland, especially after 1066. Contributions to the history of the

Northmen in Ireland: i. The royal race of Dublin; ii. Norse elements in Gaelic tradition; iii. Norse settlements round the Bristol channel: 3 pts. in 1 vol., Christiania, 1900, pp. 17+ 32 +

II.

Gotlændingernes Handel paa England og Norge omkring 1300, Norske Historiske Forening, Historisk Tidsskrift, 3rd series, v. 145-80, Christiania, 1899. Handelen mellem England og Norge indtil Begyndelsen af det 15de Aarhundrede, ibid., iv. 1-149, Christiania, 1898; separately, 1896. Norges Historie, vol. i., in 2 pts. [to 1030], Christiania, 1910-12. Vesterlandenes Indflydelse paa Nordboernes og særlig Nordmændenes ydre Kultur, Christiania, 1905 [1904].

See also No. 1356a; and Duald MacFirbis, On the Formorians and the Norsemen, the original Irish text, edited with a translation and notes by Alexander Bugge, Christiania, 1905, pp. 37.

1523b. COLLINGWOOD, W. G. Scandinavian Britain. London, 1908.

1524. FERGUSON, ROBERT. The Northmen in Cumberland and Westmoreland. London, etc., 1856.

An attempt to present in popular form the leading facts contained in Worsaae's Danes and Norwegians in England (No. 1539).

1525. GILES, J. A. Life and times of Alfred the Great. London, 1848; 2nd edition, 1854.

1526. *GREEN, J. R. The conquest of England [A.D. 8291071]. London, 1883; reprinted, 2 vols., 1899.

1526a. HARWARD, [T. N.] Hereward, the Saxon patriot. London, 1896.

15266. HENDERSON, GEORGE. The Norse influence on Celtic Scotland. Glasgow, 1910.

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